The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that we should create networks of cities and towns based on city clusters, enabling the coordinated development of cities of different sizes and small towns. When attending the Guangdong delegation of the first session of the 13th National People's Congress during the deliberation, Xi Jinping stressed that we should seize the major opportunities in constructing the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and, speed up relevant work with them, and build an international first-class Bay Area and world-class urban agglomeration. We should build a world-class urban agglomeration, play an important role in optimizing spatial layout and gathering production factors, upgrade quality and performance of regional economic development, and make growth drivers more robust. They are all-important signs of implementation of Xi Jinping's socialist economic thoughts with China's characteristics in the new era and promotion of high-quality economic development, as well as significant contents of implementing the strategy of regional coordinated development.The rise of urban agglomeration is an important symbol of economic development to a certain stage, and plays a huge leading role in economic development. The development experience of world-class urban agglomerations shows that high-quality urban agglomerations can optimize the regional development pattern and drive the high-quality development of the whole economy.
